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Home Computers Not as Protected as Owners Think

Posted by TimSlavin at November 7, 2004

"While 77% of the survey respondents believed they were safe from online threats, two-thirds lacked current anti-virus software and did not use any firewall protection. More than half said they did not understand the difference between the two.

Yet 84% stored personal data on their home PCs, and 72% routinely used the Internet for sensitive transactions, such as banking and medical data exchanges.

When technicians examined their PCs, they found 80% loaded with dozens of spyware programs that track the user's Web-browsing habits. Cybercrooks also have begun spreading a more invasive kind of spyware, called keystroke loggers, that steal logins and passwords as the user types them in."

Just in time for Halloween and Day of the Dead, a truly scary story from USA Today. More details are in Associated Press story posted on MSNBC, Online users not safe as they think. The report was done by Stay Safe Online and their website includes a lot of useful information about how to protect your computers.
URLs:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-10-24-pc-security_x.htm


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6322581/


http://www.staysafeonline.info/home-news.html

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